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Courts unlikely to entertain, let alone sustain, challenge to Cruz's qualification to be president
660 News ^ | January 6, 2016 | Mark Sherman, The Associated Press

Posted on 01/06/2016 4:29:27 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

WASHINGTON - It seems like only yesterday that skeptics of Barack Obama's birth in Hawaii rushed to the Supreme Court to try to block the son of an American mother and Kenyan father from taking office as president. The justices turned away those challenges as fast as they arrived at the courthouse door, much as lower courts did.

Seven years later, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is dealing with pointed remarks from rival Donald Trump that Cruz's birth in Canada to an American mother and Cuban father raises doubt about his eligibility to be president and could dog his campaign for the White House. Trump had also famously questioned whether Obama was really born in Hawaii....

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: canada; cruz; eligible; naturalborn; naturalborncitizen; tedcruz
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To: Spaulding

Wow, thanks. I appreciate the well-thought-out answer and the excellent references.


21 posted on 01/06/2016 6:21:44 PM PST by Kenny (RED)
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To: Spaulding; LucyT; maggief; V K Lee; nopardons

Thank you for your LEGAL / historical analysis.


22 posted on 01/06/2016 7:02:55 PM PST by hoosiermama
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To: Spaulding

Thank you so much for that information.


23 posted on 01/06/2016 7:07:56 PM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: V K Lee

That is EXACTLY what they now are teaching people in the class to prepare for the Naturalization test. It’s NOT where, it the BOTH PARENTS ARE AMERICAN CITIZENS.


24 posted on 01/06/2016 7:08:20 PM PST by nopardons
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To: hoosiermama

Thanks for the ping.


25 posted on 01/06/2016 7:09:55 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons; maggief

Which is why BO did not qualify Had nothing to do with the BC or where he was born.

Can you get hold of the study material or an actual Naturalization Test?
Simply publishing that material would go far to clear up the confusion.


26 posted on 01/06/2016 7:27:05 PM PST by hoosiermama
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To: hoosiermama
Re BO...EXACTLY !

I don't know if the person who told me this ( which was ten years ago...so had NOTHING at all to do with Obama nor anyone else ) kept the test and/or the study guide. My guess is that they didn't hand back the tests; just gave the people their grades. But he was delighted to be an American citizen and his wife was expecting so he said that now his son ( yes, they knew the sex of the baby beforehand ) could now be president.

27 posted on 01/06/2016 7:34:41 PM PST by nopardons
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Take that Mr Grayson


28 posted on 01/06/2016 7:58:57 PM PST by CPT Clay (Hillary: Julius and Ethal Rosenberg were electrocuted for selling classified info.)
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To: V K Lee
BOTH PARENTS MUST BE US CITIZENS. Cruz dad was not.

You -- or your Civic text -- was mistaken.

U.S. Citizenship Law

Note: ...parent or parents...

29 posted on 01/06/2016 8:02:39 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: hoosiermama
BOTH PARENTS MUST BE US CITIZENS. Cruz dad was not.

You -- or your Civic text -- was mistaken.

U.S. Citizenship Law

Note: ...parent or parents...

30 posted on 01/06/2016 8:06:35 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Spaulding

Thanks from this direction as well. Never spoke legalize well - it’s a foreign language to me. And US Civics was many moons ago. Many lies for truth have been sprung by the left and knowing the difference is a quiz game in itself.


31 posted on 01/06/2016 8:27:05 PM PST by V K Lee (u TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP to TRIUMPH Follow the lead MAKE AMERICA GREAT)
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To: nopardons

Thank you sir. BOTH PARENTS = US Citizens. And if born outside the country additional rules and restrictions would apply as to mother’s age, how long lived in the States and other items which would need to be considered. The sixty’s was so many years ago. Since that time we’ve had what I consider to be a foreigner as oo resident, a president who lied under oath but kept the office to which he was elected, and other discrepancies in what was learned so long ago. Believe I do remember being taught at that time if born on US soil the newborn was automatically a citizen - never thought to question that ‘law’ before now. However seeing how the left does find great joy in rewriting history ALL history will be questioned forthwith.


32 posted on 01/06/2016 8:46:42 PM PST by V K Lee (u TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP to TRIUMPH Follow the lead MAKE AMERICA GREAT)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
How long will they keep screaming that lie?
TED CRUZ is by far, the MOST CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE we've got ! So there is the law for the time Ted Cruz was born,
AND HOW Ted Cruz's PARENTS fulfilled ALL those requirements of the law that time, for Ted Cruz to be a "Natural Born Citizen".
Ted Cruz did NOT NEED a Court and a Judge to "Nationalize" him.
33 posted on 01/06/2016 8:48:34 PM PST by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: V K Lee
You're welcome.

I get very tired of all of the falsehoods that get posted here and to other sites. I post FACTS and often get not only called vile names, but insulted, impugned, and reviled for doing so.

Since the American government issues the books that those who want to become naturalized citizens must learn/commit to memory, I'll take that over some opinion posted here by others who don't know the facts and/or are lying or quoting others OUTSIDE of government officials' books on the matter.

34 posted on 01/06/2016 9:15:00 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Yosemitest

To TWO American CITIZENS who are parents of said child/children.


35 posted on 01/06/2016 9:15:50 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons
Not according to THE LAW AT THE TIME OPF HIS BIRTH.
TED CRUZ IS LEGAL AND A "NATURAL BORN CITIZEN" OF THE UNITED STATES according to THE LAW AT THE TIME OF HIS BIRTH.

36 posted on 01/06/2016 9:42:27 PM PST by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Yosemitest
Yes, at the time of his birth and before it and after it.

I know that this is a confusing subject, that many people pipe in and talk about, claiming that their "opinions" are the correct ones; however, what's on the governments records and papers is what's what and why I said the same thing about Obama.

37 posted on 01/06/2016 11:00:24 PM PST by nopardons
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I would not bet on that. They may not do it right now, but if Cruz win the nomination, the lawsuits will be filled the next day. One in Federal Court in front of an Obama appointed Judge in the 9th Circus and others in swing states to take him off the ballot.


38 posted on 01/06/2016 11:16:19 PM PST by ClayinVA ("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
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To: Spaulding

bkmk


39 posted on 01/06/2016 11:18:37 PM PST by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: Spaulding; hoosiermama; caww; carriage_hill; MV=PY; Old Sarge; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; ...

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40 posted on 01/06/2016 11:18:46 PM PST by LucyT
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